Spring 2019 Ethics Reading Schedule

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1: JAN 16

• Introduction to the Course

• Welcome
• About the Course
• Succeeding in the Course
• Course Management
• Transparency in Pedagogy

2: JAN 23

Philosophical Method

Please find time to review the wiki page Philosophical Methods. Today we'll be working with the following methods:

• Theorizing from new or established knowledge
• Identifying presuppositions
• Defining terms
• Fitting principles to cases
• Counter-examples

• Ariely, Why We Lie (6)

Method: Tips on How to report study findings

• Philosophy makes use of a wide range of evidence and knowledge. In this course you will encounter alot of psychological, anthropological and cultural studies. You have to practice the way you represent studies (as opposed to theories) and how you make inferences from their conclusions.

• observational, survey, experimental
• study setup: for observational: who were the test subjects, what were they asked to do; for survey: what instrument was used, to whom was it given?
• what conditions were tested?
• what was the immeditate result?
• what was the significance or inference to be made from the results?

• Singer, Chapter 1, "About Ethics," from Practical Ethics

• Zimbardo (lecture)

3: JAN 28

• Haidt, The Righteous Mind, Intro and Chapter 1

4: JAN 30

• Lecture on Consequentialisms
• Robert Sapolsky, from Behave, Chapter 13, "Morality and doing the Right Thing, Once You've Figured Out What that Is." pp. 478-483.

5: FEB 4

• Haidt, Chapter 3, "Elephants Rule"
• Haidt, Chapter 4, "Vote for Me (Here's Why)"

6: FEB 6

• Lecture on Non-Consequentialisms

• Robert Sapolsky, C 13, "Morality..." pp. 483-493.

• The Trolley Problem

• The Trolley Problem. Variations on the Trolley Problem: [[1]]
• Self-driving cars with Trolley problems: [2]

• The Cold Logic of Drunk People

7: FEB 11

• Haidt, Chapter 5, "Beyond WEIRD Morality"
• Haidt, Chapter 6, "Taste Buds of the Righteous Mind"

8: FEB 13

• Hibbing, John R., Kevin Smith, and John R. Alford, Predisposed: Liberals, conservatives, and the biology of political difference, Chapter 1.
• Lecture: Add notes on Phil Theories
• Robert Sapolsky, C 13, "Morality..." pp. 493-500.

9: FEB 18

• Haidt, Chapter 7, "The Moral Foundations of Politics"

• Haidt, Chapter 8: The Conservative Advantage

10: FEB 20

• Hibbing, John R., Kevin Smith, and John R. Alford, Predisposed, Chapter 2, "Getting Into Bedrock with Politics".

*Writing workshop with old writing

11: FEB 25

• Haidt, Chapter 9, "Why Are We so Groupish?"

12: FEB 27

• Hibbing, John R., Kevin Smith, and John R. Alford, Predisposed, Chapter 4, "Drunk Flies and Salad Greens".
• Robert Sapolsky, from Behave, Chapter 14, "Feeling Someone's Pain, Understanding Soemone's Pain, Alleviating Someone's Pain." 521-535.

13: MAR 4

• Robert Sapolsky, C 13, "Morality..." pp. 501-517.
• SW1

14: MAR 6

• Robert Sapolsky, from Behave, Chapter 14, "Feeling Someone's Pain, Understanding Soemone's Pain, Alleviating Someone's Pain." 535--552.

15: MAR 18

• Singer, "Rich and Poor"

16: MAR 20

• Sachs, Jeffrey, "Can the Rich Afford to Help the Poor?" (2006)
• Jeffrey Sachs, "The Case for Aid" p. 850

17: MAR 25

• 1W C1

18: MAR 27

• 1W C2

19: APR 1

• Benhabib Imm

20: APR 3

• 1W C4 Pt 1

21: APR 8

• Macdeo, Imm

22: APR 10

• 1W C4 Pt 2

23: APR 15

• 1W C3

24: APR 17

• H 10

25: APR 22

• Peer Assessed Paper due

26: APR 24

• H 11

27: APR 29

• H 12

28: MAY 1

• Course Conclusion